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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fleury barters precious belongings in exchange for what for Louise's birthday?

2. What insects does Fleury observe in the banqueting hall in Chapter 27?

3. What does the Collector eat at the end of Chapter 29?

4. Chloe detects a sepoy, and because Fleury doesn't have his rifle with him, who ends up shooting the sepoy?

5. Fleury was composing a poem about whom in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Collector sitting on and what is he discussing with the Padre in Chapter 31?

2. At the end of Chapter 29 what does the Collector read about in the phrenology book and what does he eat on the way downstairs?

3. What happens to Ford in Chapter 30 and what falls on the Collector?

4. What three characters in the novel die in Chapter 18?

5. What condition does the Collector find Hari in when he visits him in the tiger house?

6. What table is used for the altar for the Wright baby's Baptism?

7. What ingenious idea does Harry come up with to deal with the thick vegetation encroaching on the edges of the defenses?

8. What does Fleury hear in the morning which he finds beautiful? What is Ram's comment on this and Fleury's thought about it?

9. Who does Dr. McNab ask to look after the Collector and what transpires during that time?

10. What happens on September 12th and why can't the British destroy the enemy's magazine cache?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe the final attack on the Residency. What are some of the comical moments which take place during this attack?

2) Describe Fleury's reaction to hearing the singing of prayers and the tolling of bells floating over the plain. What does he ponder while listening to the beauty of the singing?

3) Who ends up married to whom after the siege is over and life returns to normal?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the plain the travelers to Krishnapur pass through. What are the landscape, the buildings, and the animals like?

2) Describe the Krishnapur Poetry Society. How are the women and their poetry treated by the Magistrate? The Collector?

3) What makes the Collector suspect future danger for the cantonment and what does he do about it?

Choose two of the three topics to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe the author's use of symbolism using the rose in the Collector's lapel an the animals taking shelter from the heat as examples. What do they symbolise?

2) Describe how Harry helps the men with their military procedures. What does he teach them.

3) Describe examples of animals and nature the Padre uses to exemplify God's grand design. Do you find some of these a bit comical?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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